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Plot Summary:
Altered Species is a 2001 horror film, about a scientist who has found a way to regenerate damaged tissue in the body. He has tried his experiment on rats, but the effects are disastrous. One of them grows to 50 times its normal size, and attempts to destroy the laboratory.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: natural horror
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Deadly Eyes (1982)
Plot Summary:
Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, natural horror, bleak, splatter, independent film, awful
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The Bees (1978)
Plot Summary:
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, cult horror, independent film, grindhouse, cult film, disaster movie
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Uninvited (1987)
Plot Summary:
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, slasher, classic horror, natural horror, surprise ending, independent film, psychotronic
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Beaks: The Movie (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vanessa, a television reporter covering a story of a farmer attacked by his chickens, discovers that this is not an isolated incident. Travelling to Spain with her cameraman Peter, the two discover the survivors of a town wiped out by the birds thirty years ago. Meanwhile, attacks continue as a child's birthday party ends in tragedy and doves devour a poultry farmer and his wife. Vanessa soon comes to the conclusion that the birds are organizing themselves against the ecological ravages of man, but time is running out as thousands of birds launch an attack against a train Vanessa is traveling on.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Puerto Rico, Italy, Spain, Peru
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: natural horror, funny, mexploitation, cult film
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Killer Bees (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic
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Ticks (1993)
Plot Summary:
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, rough, semi serious, natural horror, retro, dark, independent film, psychotronic, weird
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Island Claws (1980)
Plot Summary:
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Savage Bees (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Dogs of Hell (1983)
Plot Summary:
A pack of Rottweilers, bred and trained by the U.S. military to kill humans, escape to ravage the peaceful mountain resort town of Lake Lure. It is up to the local sheriff to protect his small community.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: natural horror, detective, grindhouse, independent film
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Tail Sting (2001)
Plot Summary:
A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark, natural horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, nostalgic
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Dogs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pack of domesticated dogs go on a killing spree in southern California.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, independent film
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Strays (1991)
Plot Summary:
Family moves into new home and is attacked by stray cats.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, natural horror
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Sabertooth (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing, perverse, fast, psychotronic, serious
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Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
Plot Summary:
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, wild, cult film
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Alligator (1980)
Plot Summary:
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, stylized, witty, suspenseful, grindhouse, humorous, slasher, natural horror, splatter
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Day of the Animals (1977)
Plot Summary:
The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, scary, natural horror, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film, tension, serious, suspense
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Skeeter (1993)
Plot Summary:
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough treatment and injections given by ship's doctor Gerbac which make the strong man faint, and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broke as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around and finds human bodies on meat hooks, but even Alex thinks he's just hallucinating. Alas while sane Jason is restrained for his 'paranoia', the real madmen are the doc's genetic experiment outfit, who abuse their human captives as live incubators for a giant spider's eggs.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, natural horror
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The Rats (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, wild, campy
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Mimic 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of "Judas" bugs and introduced them into the environment, where they were to "mimic" the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey.....humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant cockroaches are back, and this time they've mutated to take on human form!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror, surprise ending, wild
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Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, cult horror, tense
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Night of the Lepus (1972)
Plot Summary:
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, suspense, absurd, horror comedy, psychotronic, funny, retro
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Panic in the tower (1990)
Plot Summary:
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, classic horror, disgusting, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film
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Killer Rats (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, natural horror
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Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Plot Summary:
A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting, natural horror, humorous, fast, psychotronic, detective
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The Nest (1987)
Plot Summary:
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, natural horror, retro, cult horror, independent film, psychotronic
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They Crawl (2001)
Plot Summary:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a computer hacker, they find a blueprint that reveals the killer who has been terrorizing the city...a rampaging posse of genetically mutated cockroaches!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, detective, natural horror
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Swarmed (2005)
Plot Summary:
Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: natural horror, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Spiders (2000)
Plot Summary:
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, bleak, psychotronic, natural horror, spooky
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